IPNews® – The U.S. Copyright Office said Wednesday it plans to look into the ways that a federal resale royalty right might be able to benefit visual artists and how such a right would change the art marketplace.
The inquiry comes in response to a request by U.S. Senator Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin and U.S. Representative
IPNews® – The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a $222,000 copyright infringement verdict against a Minnesota woman whom the major record labels accused of sharing copyrighted songs through the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Kazaa.
The Minnesota district court had cut the jury’s damages award to $54,000 three times for three separate jury trials in the case
IPNews® – The Velvet Underground on Friday lost its copyright infringement claim against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. over the licensing of Warhol’s famous banana screenprint cover art for the band’s debut album, but the band’s remaining claims for trademark infringement remain intact.
A New York federal judge ruled that because
IPNews® – EMI Music added one more complaint last week to the pile of copyright infringement lawsuits record labels are pursuing against online music streaming service Grooveshark.
The service continued to provide EMI’s music to users despite failing to make licensing payments or provide sales records, EMI’s complaint in New York federal court against Grooveshark
IPNews® – Angelina Jolie came out swinging on Tuesday in response to an author’s copyright infringement claims related to the movie In The Land Of Blood And Honey she directed about the Bosnian civil war.
Author James J. Braddock’s 2007 book The Soul Shattering has nothing to do with the film, Jolie said in an
IPNews® – Oracle Corp. must pay Google Inc. $1 million to compensate for costs incurred in Oracle’s failed patent and copyright infringement suit over the Java programming language, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Google had asked for $4 million in costs, but Judge William Alsup shot down $3 million in e-discovery cost requests. Oracle
IPNews® – Four textbook publishers settled claims Tuesday against five companies they accused of selling and distributing counterfeit copies of their copyrighted and trademarked work.
The settlements include a total of $2.6 million in payments to publishers Cengage Learning Inc., John Wiley and Sons Inc., Pearson Education Inc. and McGraw-Hill Education, as well as agreements
IPNews® – A Southern California party costume business is facing copyright and trademark infringement claims from Disney Enterprises Inc., DC Comics and Sanrio Inc.
The entertainment companies claim The Party Animals LLC is selling, renting and distributing costumes featuring trademarked and copyrighted characters including Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Superman, Batman and Hello Kitty. To continue
IPNews® – Copyright enforcement agencies are directly monitoring BitTorrent file-sharing traffic on a massive scale, scanning for potentially infringing activities, a group of researchers said Tuesday.
The group claims their study provides the first definitive evidence of such direct monitoring, which is focused primarily on the most popular music and movies. The IP addresses of
IPNews® – Michael Jackson’s estate settled a copyright infringement lawsuit it brought against a businessman working on behalf of Jackson’s mother in a $2.5 million deal Tuesday.
Defendant Howard Mann and his companies Vintage Pop Media Group LLC and Vintage Associates LLC will also be banned from further use of Jackson’s likeness without authorization. The